[GreenKeys] RE: Status of Hoff Net on 10.137300 (mark)/10.137130 (space)

[Douglas W. Jones]

On May 10, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Eric Scace K3NA wrote:

> The 12 letters were used
> the form about an inch of paper tape that could be immediately ripped 
> from the reperforator;

A modest historical question from a kid who only began
punching paper tape in 1968.  Why is it called a
reperforator, as opposed to a simple perforator.
Certainly, you're not reperforating an already
perforated strip of tape.  I've wondered about this on
and off for several years.

Mostly, in the computer world where I lived, they were
punches and not perforators.

		Doug Jones
		jones at cs.uiowa.edu